August 5, 2013

Here is the latest from Sydnie!

Thankfully neither of us have been sick again! We are still with the Bucksbees until the 15th, and I have no idea where we will be going after that! It's up to the ward to provide housing. Right now it's between the Bishop, who lives 10 miles South of Plattsmouth in a closed community, (so we couldn't knock on doors) or the Relief Society President who lives in Louisville about 20 miles west of Plattsmouth. I am way excited to be with Sister Harris again! It was so surprising! and she has never had a companion for more than one transfer. Our transfers are 6 weeks long. The Thrift store is not super exciting, we just wash the donations that come in and will price them, but the assisted living is hilarious. We help with activities, so we go and just play games with them. They can get super competitive and will gang up so against us so that Sister Harris and I won't win. The most competitive lady has Alzheimer's so she will be super mad that you made a move in the game and she will chew you out. But then like 3 minutes later she won't remember she was mad at all. Our investigator from Africa isn't interested anymore. She refused to read the Book of Mormon or pray about it. She would cancel all our appointments. She just wasn't interested.

The weather has been super nice, in the 70's all week and no humidity! It's been amazing!

Other than that, this week was not much out of the ordinary except yesterday. We had 2 less Active members come to church. One has been coming with her kids on and off for about a month, but her husband is not a member and he came to church. He knows more about the church than most members do but he is too stubborn to admit that it is true. We saw them last right before transfers and when he saw us yesterday he actually yelled "You are both still here!" and came up and gave us a hug. Hilarious but SUPER awkward. Their whole family is so nice!

The other miracle was with the other less active we have been working on. She is working on her PHD and according to her "doesn't have time" to come to church, but she has said she wants to come back now, it's just hard. We talked to her about it last week and she said she would think about it. We didn't think she would come, especially since she hasn't come for almost 3 years, but she came! Everyone in the ward was so shocked! But she stayed the whole 3 hours and actually set up an appointment for tonight for us to teach some of her friends!

Sister Huss